Ritual Practices category: 1070 books
by Ronald L. Grimes
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
In religious studies, theory and method research has long been embroiled in a polarized debate over scientific versus theological perspectives. Ronald L. Grimes shows that this debate has stagnated, due in part to a manner of theorizing too far removed from the study of actual religious practices....
by Timothy D. Son
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Ritual Practices in Congregational Identity Formation investigates the educational roles of ritual practices in the process of congregational identity formation. Son identifies and analyzes various kinds of Christian rituals with respect to how rituals influence the formational processes of a congregation’s...
Ritual Participation and Interreligious Dialogue
Boundaries, Transgressions and Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Shared ritual practices, multi-faith celebrations, and interreligious prayers are becoming increasingly common in the USA and Europe as more people experience religious diversity first hand. While ritual participation can be seen as a powerful expression of interreligious solidarity, it also carries...
African American Christian Worship
2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
In this update to her 1993 classic, African American Christian Worship, Melva Wilson Costen, again delights her reader with a lively history and theology of the African American worship experience. Drawing upon careful scholarship and engaging stories, Dr. Costen details the global impact on African...
Caring Liturgies
The Pastoral Power of Christian Ritual
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Caregiving practices in churches often center around listening and giving counsel, making referrals, and creating support groups for specific needs. In Caring Liturgies, Susan Marie Smith proposes that Christian ritual is both a method and a means for helping people through liminal times of...
Ritual Violence in the Hebrew Bible
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Although the relationship of the Hebrew Bible and violence has been of interest to scholars in recent years, ritual violence in its various manifestations has been underexplored, as have been the theoretical dimensions of ritual violence. This volume is intended to bring into relief the full range...
Rite out of Place
Ritual, Media, and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2006
Much ritual studies scholarship still focuses on central religious rites. For this reason, Grimes argues, dominant theories, like the data they consider, remain stubbornly conservative. This book issues a challenge to these theories and to popular conceptions of ritual. Rite Out of Place collects...
by John Howard Yoder
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Binding and loosing, baptism, eucharist, multiplicity of gifts, and open meeting; these five New Testament practices were central in the life of the early Christian community. Some of them are still echoed in the practice of the church today. But the full social, ethical, and communal meaning of the...
by Malcolm C. Duncan
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Duncan's Masonic Ritual And Monitor
by Malcolm C. Duncan
"This book presents details of Masonic initiation rituals, along with grips, passwords and regalia. Written in the 19th century, Duncan's Ritual, as it is known, has been republished numerous times. It includes the three basic degrees...
Days of Death, Days of Life
Ritual in the Popular Culture of Oaxaca
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2005
Kristin Norget explores the practice and meanings of death rituals in poor urban neighborhoods on the outskirts of the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork in Oaxaca City, Norget provides vivid descriptions of the Day of the Dead and other popular religious practices....
From Altar-Throne to Table
The Campaign for Frequent Holy Communion in the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
From Altar-Throne to Table: The Campaign for Frequent Holy Communion in the Catholic Church investigates what the celebrated scholar of liturgy Robert A. Taft, SJ, calls the greatest and most successful liturgical reform in Catholic history. Only a century ago, faithful, practicing Catholics received...
Coming to the Edge of the Circle
A Wiccan Initiation Ritual
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
Imagine yourself sitting on the cool damp earth, surrounded by deep night sky and fields full of fireflies, anticipating the ritual of initiation that you are about to undergo. Suddenly you hear the sounds of far-off singing and chanting, drums booming, rattles "snaking," voices raised in harmony....
Ancient Christian Worship
Early Church Practices in Social, Historical, and Theological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
An Important Study on the Worship of the Early Church
This introduction to the origins of Christian worship illuminates the importance of ancient liturgical patterns for contemporary Christian practice. Andrew McGowan takes a fresh approach to understanding how Christians came to worship in...
What Every Christian Needs to Know About Passover
What It Means and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
The Passover was celebrated by Jesus and the disciples the last time they were together. Now popular speaker and writer Rabbi Evan Moffic brings an understanding to the Last Supper that will forever change how Christians celebrate Communion and prepare for Easter. Beginning with the Hebrew Bible and...